The word “misanthrope” carries a certain charge with it. It’s either lumped in with socially unacceptable ideas like Satanism, pedophilia and fascism or it’s adopted as a proud badge of equanimous hatred, a refusal to discriminate and thus a writing off of the entire species. Yet what we can learn from misanthropy is that: all [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cognitive dissonance’
The Inviolate Truth
It is some Postmodern supposition that quotes can’t speak for themselves because they are necessarily coloured, selective, etc. From this academic and blogging tradition it is seen as the author’s shortcoming when he doesn’t give his own spin to the material. This is of course, utter nonsense since arguments are Truth-claims. I’m tired of arguing [...]
The Religion of “Me”
I started out as nobody. I had accomplished nothing and had no standing. I was nothing special, and I acted accordingly. A smalltime human. Then suddenly I was “equal”. Out of the blue. Without having done a thing! How wonderful was that? Now I was every bit as important as important people. People who had [...]
Dig
As Brett Stevens wrote in his latest post: That would allow me to cut back on information overload a little bit by saying, “Here, here’s my reality. These are the things I read to stay informed. You don’t need the rest; it’s just repeating what these guys are telling you, but in a less accurate [...]
Polarization
If there is anything besides domestic social policy that divides the Western right, it is the Israeli state. The liberal left prefer to oversimplify this issue, as with all things, into a binary ‘just’ or ‘unjust’ case. This is convenient when your supporting constituents are constantly fed victim and oppressor indoctrination and very little else [...]
Frailty, what is thy name?
In a dream, it was this morning revealed to me at long last what women are really like. So as soon as I rinsed me from my slumber, I decided to come to this website to write down the most valuable findings of my revelation. I dreamed that I was visiting some young, soft and appealing woman. [...]
Getting back on track
I reckon that many reading this blog are children of Baby Boomers. That’s one of the reasons the Boomers are such an easy target here. The Boomers have problems of their own, such as the the Social Security bill finally coming due. But what about their children? Baby Boomer children have grown up and become [...]
Ideas without vision are useless
I’m in touch with folks that are considered part of Generation Y (I sort of fall in between X and Y, I guess). Many of them have no desire in kids or families, date casually, listen to vinyl, and generally strike back against anything their parents do with a hipster attitude typical of those we [...]
Rethinking individualism
Say you walk into a building at which you’re employed. You feel businesslike – coat, computer bag over shoulder, maybe a cup of coffee or tea in hand. Others look similar and climb into the elevator with you. Buttons are pressed. Your eyes venture, but never into other eyes. Stainless steel walls in this contraption [...]
